Dave Grohl Quotes

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

I have my dark side like anybody, you know, depression, anxiety... and I write about gritty, real-life stuff.

Sometimes you have to confront your demons and sometimes even let them loose to genuinely find a place where you can gain some understanding.

I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.

I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.

I'm really out of touch with myself emotionally. I've always had a hard time talking about how I feel.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

The character of Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' has some real dark sides, and Matt wasn't afraid to explore those.

I'm a victim of my own insides. There was a time when I wanted to know everything. It used to make me very unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned to make that feeling work for me.

I can only be the madman that I've been so long.

I'm putting out music that I love, and they're basically just stories of my life and how I try and teach myself to think about things. They're kind of like notes to self, basically.

Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

I can guide you if you feel blind, I just need you to be willing to journey into my ILL Mind.

I've stopped war reporting. I realized that I'd answered all of my questions about war and about myself.

I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.

I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.'

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.

At midlife, I think a woman has more in common with her teenage children than anybody else. We all are kind of uncertain. We realize for the first time in either our lives or decades that we're in charge now.

I suffered a bout of depression that pushed me to reevalute things in my life, and I learned a lot about myself and the world and my spirituality. I sat at a piano, and the ideas fell into my head. I started playing, and I felt comfortable with my music for the first time.

You have to know who you are, if you don't you have nightmares.

There was a period when I had a hard time reconciling all the different parts of me in a way that I thought would make sense to others.

Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

I think a novel has to be about where you are at a given moment in time. I think it really needs to represent some specific pain you're going through. it's not just a story.